{"id":19628,"date":"2010-08-13T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T15:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=19628"},"modified":"2010-09-01T18:57:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T01:57:20","slug":"gaga-mercury-metropolis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/19628","title":{"rendered":"Gaga, Mercury, Metropolis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/video\/xyvu?additionalInfos=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/video\/xyvu?additionalInfos=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Queen&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/aUglwC\"target=\"_blank\">Radio Gaga.<\/a><\/em> From 1984.<\/p>\n<p>The video features public domain footage from Fritz Lang&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metropolis_%28film%29\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolis<\/a> (1927).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/NewTowerofBabelLARGE.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/TowerofBabelMET.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Metropolis&#8217; New Tower of Babel; click for larger version\/jump<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also in 1984, producer Giorgio Moroder updated Metropolis with a rock score &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metropolis_%28film%29#Restorations_and_re-releases\" target=\"_blank\">controversial<\/a> for some purists. Queen&#8217;s Freddy Mercury contributed <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/ai3mPB\" target=\"_blank\">Love Kills<\/a><\/em> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/bZxmZP\"target=\"_blank\">soundtrack<\/a> (video below); though unrelated to the <em>Gaga<\/em> single.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Moroder&#8217;s new wave-esque version (due to music licensing) hasn&#8217;t been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.morodermetropolisdvd.com\"target=\"_blank\">officially<\/a> released on DVD. But in comparison to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kino.com\/metropolis\/restoration.html\" target=\"_blank\">original (which got a complete restoration just this year),<\/a> Moroder&#8217;s music, color tints and enhanced sound fx result in a totally different, very 1980s film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i8rIJ5TUBuc\" target=\"_blank\">experience.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"325\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/video\/xel50?additionalInfos=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/video\/xel50?additionalInfos=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"325\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Gaga, Mercury, Metropolis\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/19628\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen&#8217;s Radio Gaga. From 1984. The video features public domain footage from Fritz Lang&#8217;s Metropolis (1927). Metropolis&#8217; New Tower of Babel; click for larger version\/jump Also in 1984, producer Giorgio Moroder updated Metropolis with a rock score &#8211; controversial for some purists. Queen&#8217;s Freddy Mercury contributed Love Kills to the soundtrack (video below); though unrelated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,125],"tags":[110,25,26],"class_list":["post-19628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design-history","category-music","tag-art-deco","tag-avant-garde","tag-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19628"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20251,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19628\/revisions\/20251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}